What 㼋 means
It has two Mandarin readings for different foods.
Dictionaries link the melon reading to 王瓜, a Chinese plant name, and record 菇 as an alternative writing. As of 2026, 㼋 is absent from 說文, an early Chinese character dictionary. Its earliest dictionary record is in 玉篇, a character dictionary compiled in 543; later rhyme dictionaries preserve the readings.
Who writes 㼋
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 㼋 look different in another font?
CJK fonts may draw it differently or lack the glyph; the appearance changes, not the character’s identity.
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How to type or find 㼋
- Search it as
- gū · rǔ · gu1 · ru3 · melon · dried vegetables
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
㼋CSS
\3F0B㼋 Pinyin input
Pinyin is Mandarin’s Latin-letter spelling: enter
gu for the melon reading or ru for dried vegetables, then select 㼋.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㼋
HTML hex
㼋
CSS content
content: "\3F0B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%BC%8B
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.